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Joined: March 08 2008
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Posted: May 05 2011 at 20:20
Well, I like their formula, but it's not something I care for through seven albums. But this Merci album...it's amazing! It's like if Magma did synth pop...think about that.
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Posted: May 05 2011 at 20:21
Alitare wrote:
Is it me, or is the super-influential, experimental, outrageous, unique Magma a band that really didn't strive for diversity? I've listened to seven of their albums today, and while every other record is absolutely great, My mind was only blown a little, and at first. Yes, gregorian chants. Yes, Rhodes piano. Yes, pseudo-jazz fusion. Yes, tribal rhythms, repetition, martial bass guitar throb, etc. Yes, opera climaxing. The songs are starting to mesh together and I can't control it. I've been listening to them in chronological order, though. I'm about to hit Merci.
Depends on what you compare them with, probably. To my ears each of the 6 studio albums of theirs I heard are different and have a distinct personality, which I'd explain by different line-ups which meant different instruments, hence different aesthethics. One album is rocky free jazz, one is classic fusion a la Weather Report but with a special twist, the next is again different with lots of dark organ playing and weird choirs; the next is a fuzzy space epic, etc.. The first of the modern ones is very akin to symph-prog because of Manu Borghi the synth-wiz, then he leaves and is replaced by someone who plays exclusively electric piano which brings them somewhere else again, and so on. And I haven't touched their "funkier" albums yet.
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Posted: May 05 2011 at 20:21
Magma just seems overly dramatic for their own good. I like Udu Wudu and Attahk the best because the Wagnerian craziness is left to a minimum, and Jannick Top lets it rip on the bass.
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Posted: May 05 2011 at 20:22
Alitare wrote:
Well, I like their formula, but it's not something I care for through seven albums. But this Merci album...it's amazing! It's like if Magma did synth pop...think about that.
I've never heard Merci, mainly because I as scared off by other saying it sucks bad. Will give it a try this week.
My favorite Magma albums are the ones they've recorded in the last decade: the Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogie live album, K.A and Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré.
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Posted: May 05 2011 at 20:23
So far I've preferred MDK and the debut the most. MDK due to the excess of climax-and-recall, and the debut due to the hefty reliance on well crafted and open minded jazz fusion.
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Posted: May 05 2011 at 20:24
colorofmoney91 wrote:
Magma just seems overly dramatic for their own good. I like Udu Wudu and Attahk the best because the Wagnerian craziness is left to a minimum, and Jannick Top lets it rip on the bass.
I don't particularly like Top as a bassist and writer, and I love the crazyness.
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Posted: May 05 2011 at 20:27
I've yet to listen to either -Re or KA. (f**k Kobaian, okay? I don't have time for remembering where all the extra m's and h's go.). Right now, as blasphemous as it may seem, I may be prefering Merci over all of it...mainly because it's their most musical album (the least occupied with repetition, and the most occupied with honest-to-Kommandoh melodies, dude). But that might be a stretch.
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Posted: May 05 2011 at 20:35
Oh, and hello new Shred. I was asleep. It was ok, although I overslept and now I will have to actually do work right now to get this done before midnight instead of dicking around.
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